Editing Lycoming Engines (section)

===Sewing machines, bicycles and fashion===
[[File:Demorest Machine.jpg|thumb|left|Demorest Manufacturing Company Machine]]

Lycoming dates its founding to 1845 by "[[Ellen Louise Demorest|Madame Ellen Curtis Demorest]]".<ref name="Lycoming1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.lycoming.com/history|title=History|year=2017|publisher=Lycoming Engines|access-date=2017-08-16}}</ref> However, the early history of the company (especially prior to 1860) is unclear;<ref name="Kelly1">{{cite web |url=http://www.kelsew.info/Demorest/DemorestHistory.html |title=Demorest Sewing Machine Company History |access-date=2008-12-30 |work=kelsew.info |author=Kelly |date=November 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090614053511/http://www.kelsew.info/Demorest/DemorestHistory.html |archive-date=2009-06-14 }}</ref> biographer Ishbel Ross notes that the marriage of Ellen Louise Curtis to [[William Jennings Demorest]] took place in 1858, somewhat later than the purported date of establishment of the company.<ref name="Kelly1"/> A few years later in [[New York, New York|New York]], between c. 1860 and 1887, the Demorests published fashion magazines and operated the '''Demorest Fashion and Sewing-Machine Company''' (sometimes known as the '''Demorest Manufacturing Company'''). They produced "Madame Demorest" and "Bartlett & Demorest" sewing machines and sold Ellen Demorest's innovative paper patterns for dressmaking.<ref name="Kelly1"/> During this period, Ellen Demorest patented several fashion accessories,<ref name = "US87648">{{cite patent
 | inventor1-last = Demorest
 | inventor1-first = E. L.
 | inventorlink1 = Ellen Louise Demorest
 | inventor2-last = Cook
 | inventor2-first = W. G.
 | url = http://www.google.com/patents?id=VPBBAAAAEBAJ
 | publication-date = 1869-03-05
 | title = Brace and Suspender Combined
 | country-code = US
 | patent-number = 87648
}}</ref><ref name = "US264935">{{cite patent
 | inventor1-last = Demorest
 | inventor1-first = E. L.
 | inventorlink1 = Ellen Louise Demorest
 | url = http://www.google.com/patents?id=z91rAAAAEBAJ
 | publication-date = 1882-03-09
 | title = Puff for Head-Dresses
 | country-code = US
 | patent-number = 264935
}}</ref> while her husband patented improvements to sewing machines<ref name="Kelly1"/> and an apparatus for the [[vulcanization]] of rubber.<ref name = "US23948">{{cite patent
 | inventor1-last = Roberts
 | inventor1-first = Edward A. L.
 | inventor2-last = Demorest
 | inventor2-first = William J.
 | inventorlink2 = William Jennings Demorest
 | url = http://www.google.com/patents?id=aOdfAAAAEBAJ
 | pubdate = 1859-05-10
 | title = Apparatus for Vulcanizing Rubber
 | country-code = US
 | patent-number = 23948
}}</ref><ref name = "USRE1444">{{cite patent
 | inventor1-last = Roberts
 | inventor1-first = Edward A. L.
 | inventor2-last = Demorest
 | inventor2-first = William J.
 | inventorlink2 = William Jennings Demorest
 | url = http://www.google.com/patents?id=aOdfAAAAEBAJ
 | pubdate = 1863-03-31
 | title = Improvement in Apparatus for Vulcanizing Rubber, &c.
 | country-code = US
 | description = RE
 | patent-number = 1444
}}</ref>
[[File:Demorest-Ad.jpg|right|thumb|A Demorest print advertisement]]

Around 1883, Gerrit S. Scofield & Frank M. Scofield (advertising agents from New York) bought the Demorest brand and the sewing machine business (the Demorests retained the magazine business), and constructed a factory in [[Williamsport, Pennsylvania]] (in [[Lycoming County, Pennsylvania|Lycoming County]]).<ref name="Kelly1"/><ref name = "NYTimes1">{{Cite news
 | date = 1888-11-04
 | title = Names Obtained by Fraud.
 | periodical = New York Times
 | pages = 9
 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D04E6D7173AEF33A25757C0A9679D94699FD7CF
 | issn = 0362-4331
 | access-date = 2008-12-30
}}</ref> At the urging of the newly established Williamsport Board of Trade, citizens invested {{nowrap|[[United States dollar|US$]]100,&thinsp;000}} in the new manufacturing facility, which employed 250 people.<ref name="Kelly1"/> The factory produced 50 to 60 sewing machines per day.<ref name="McQuown1">{{cite web |url=http://www.wasd.org/cms/lib7/PA06000060/Centricity/Domain/1/dgr/ie/olddays.html |title=Lycoming County's Old Days |access-date=2008-12-30 |publisher=Williamsport Area School District |work=Williamsport Area High School Website |author=Kevin McQuown |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709091711/http://www.wasd.org/cms/lib7/PA06000060/Centricity/Domain/1/dgr/ie/olddays.html |archive-date=2015-07-09 }}</ref>
With the development of the "New York Bicycle" in 1891 (designed by employee S. H. Ellis), the company diversified its product offerings.<ref name="Kelly1"/><ref name="McQuown1"/> Until the early 1900s, the factory produced [[sewing machine]]s, [[bicycle]]s, [[typewriter]]s, opera chairs and other products.<ref name="Lycoming1"/><ref name="Kelly1"/><ref name="McQuown1"/>